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Kathy Castor: “I think we tend to talk too often about government solutions, which are important--and I agree with you, it is…”

On the recordOctober 21, 2019
I think we tend to talk too often about government solutions, which are important--and I agree with you, it is critical--but our climate crisis is, in the first instance, a market failure.
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Kathy Castor
Democratic · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Castor highlights the climate crisis as primarily a market failure rather than just a government issue.

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